Beer Diary...

San Miguel's best kept secret, an award winning craft brewery. Unless you're into the craft beer scene in Mexico you probably haven't heard of Cerveceria Dos Aves. Located in Colonia La Lejona this discrete micro-brewery has been making waves in the burgeoning Mexican craft beer scene by producing small batches of award winning ales here in San Miguel de Allende since 2012, distinguishing themselves as San Miguel's first commercial micro-brewery. What initially made it possible for Cerveceria Dos Aves and other craft breweries to grow in Mexico was ironically, a lawsuit filed by U.S. beer giant Miller who wanted to import their brand into the Mexican market. This suit convinced the Mexican congress to re-write the laws regarding the two Mexican beer monopolies of Modelo (read corona/victoria) and Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma (with the indio brand), limiting their dominance on the grocery store shelves to 25% thus allowing Miller and other breweries like Cerv...

We've advanced to the second round of voting for our Rye beer and I'm hoping all that see this will go here and place your vote. If you have different email addresses you can use those to vote again which is nice. Thanks you all for your help.

We're selling our rye IPA now and we have a cool label to go with it. This is a really enjoyable beer with about 15% rye malt, some crystal and a little chocolate malt. Tons of Columbus hops in the form of FWH and Whirlpool hop additions. I'll go more into detail on this beer soon but in the mean time we are asking anyone reading this to participate in the voting for your favorite label which we hop is ours. Must be ours, thank you very much! Go to the link below and get busy. Remember, vote early and vote often. Rye IPA label contest

It's been a busy year of brewery growth and I wanted to post some pictures of the progress we're making on our very limited budget. As the sales of Dos Aves continue and with a small influx of additional capital we have been able to move up to a 3bbl brew system. We were brewing eight back-to-back 10 gallon batches in a 12 hour day which was literally killing me. Now, with a single batch in 5 hours we have the same amount of wort going in the fermentor. Sweet. But the intense labor continues with our glamorized homebrew systems and still we are able to produce enough beer to be selling 80 cases per month and the sales are growing month by month. Below is some of the equipment we are using to get the job done. Water pump station where we move R.O. water to the brew system and tap water to the wort chiller along with pumping reclaimed chilling water and water for cleaning. The 3bbl brew system. Each kettle is heated with 42 nozzle jet burners and the transfers a...